"Reece Dunn" <msclrhd at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 20/10/2007, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>> Reece Dunn wrote:
>> > The patch was rejected by Alexandre because the patch was
>> > implementing that command using Windows API calls,
>> > when it should be implemented natively as POSIX/GNU calls.
>>>> Really? Where did he say that? It'd be nice to link to that from
>>http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7544>> - Dan
>> I asked him about it at WineConf and that is a summary of what he said.
I can't believe this, probably you misunderstood or misinterpreted something.
ReplaceFile API needs to abide sharing and access rights rules which are known
only to wineserver, and not known/available on the libc/kernel level.
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Dmitry.